Whether you’re on social media or surfing the web, you’re probably sharing more personal data than you realize. That can pose a risk to your privacy – even your safety. But at the same time, big ...

Five centuries ago, the Age of Exploration and Europe’s imperial colonization of far-off lands was launched by a revolution in ship design that made long-distance ocean voyages practical. But exactly ...

The beloved butterflies had fallen to critical levels in recent years. Experts weigh in on what might be causing their remarkable return. On a cold November morning in California, a photographer holds ...

At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, snowboarding made its debut as an Olympic sport. No longer relegated to the fringes, snowboarders took to the snow-capped peaks of Mount Yakebitai, and 26 ...

Receive emails about upcoming NOVA programs and related content, as well as featured reporting about current events through a science lens. To find out, we imagined a souped-up spacecraft that could ...

They haven't got no noses, The fallen sons of Eve; Even the smell of roses Is not what they supposes; But more than mind discloses And more than men believe. —from "The Song of the Quoodle," G.K.

The planet looks blue from space, but new research shows that most of Earth's water may actually be deep underground. Share Earth is a jewel of the solar system, painted blue by the vast oceans that ...

Patterns of lines and dots associated with specific animal species in cave art may point to an early writing system. The four dots painted across the back of this aurochs (wild ox) in the Lascaux cave ...

A false-color image of Saturn based on near-infrared data from the Cassini spacecraft, which orbited the planet for 13 years. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI ...

Air pollution is an issue around the world, though its effects are not evenly distributed. Share What do a bag of potato chips thrown out in Manhattan, a lightbulb unwittingly tossed in Philadelphia, ...

An electrical engineer works on Form Energy's 2022 battery module in the company's lab in Berkeley, California. Image courtesy of Form Energy Share Weirton, West Virginia has iron in its blood. The ...

“It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something,” Charles Dickens once observed. For Julian Barbour, those musings most often involve the nature of space and time. Barbour, ...